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So no b/p today. Ate great! A good day! I am having cravings but I will not succumb. Hopefully I can fall asleep at a decent time tonight.
 
LaMa, Petal, and Vic, well done! Good to see you so happy Vic.

No binge here and no strong urges. However as I think and plan more for maintenance I am beginning to fantasize about what I am going to eat when I hit goal. And those fantasies don't involve much healthy eating. Got to figure out how to manage it. LaMa, your suggestion that I aim for the top of the health BMI range and then go to 2,000 calories a day does make a lot of sense to me. That may be a way to start, but my fantasies involve a lot more calories than that!

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
alligatorob said:
That may be a way to start, but my fantasies involve a lot more calories than that!
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That´s the biggest danger of ultra-low calorie diets to my mind. You´ve worked too hard to start yo-yo-ing now! Maybe you can think of the thing you´d most like to eat right now and work a reasonable portion of it into your week, maybe allowing your calories to go up by 200-300 for that day. Then next week you can try one other thing.
 
Now about my own binging tendencies. I haven´t been posting here because I feel like a failure when I have to come in every day and confess. But then earlier I was telling someone else there´s no judgment here and it´s important to keep posting through the hard times. So I guess I´m back, for better or for worse. In the past 8 days I only had one day without too much icecream, chocolate, and sometimes chips. Today I had a big breakfast (pitabread with two eggs, half an avocado, garlic, nooch, and rocket). Lunch will be... Something with corn cakes. Let me commit to having beans for lunch, although I don´t know how to combine them yet. Sushi for dinner.
 
So... none of that happened. I binged on icecream. Overate by maybe 1000 kcal. Plan for tomorrow: same breakfast as today, go out to lunch (Wienerwald, basically fast food), have beeft stew and rice for dinner.
 
LaMaria said:
So... none of that happened. I binged on icecream. Overate by maybe 1000 kcal. Plan for tomorrow: same breakfast as today, go out to lunch (Wienerwald, basically fast food), have beeft stew and rice for dinner.
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Was there anything in particular that led you to this binge? Maybe we can recognize what that is and help.
 
Hey LaMa, this is a good place to talk about bingeing, no matter what you have to say. You never judge folks so why would we judge you? Everybody here is equal. If it helps you try to control bingeing, then please post. Sorry to hear about the ice cream, but tomorrow is another day. You will get though this.

I did not binge today, and had no strong immediate urges, but that feeling of wanting to eat more is sure still there.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
River Bird said:
Was there anything in particular that led you to this binge? Maybe we can recognize what that is and help.
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Yes there was, it's in my diary if you're interested. By the way: I'd love for you to either start a diary or add to the maintenance thread to tell us about the things you struggled with while losing weight, how you overcame those struggles, how the transition to maintenance went and how you handle things now. There's plenty of information here about what people do while on the way down but very few people stick around after reaching their goals. And the ones who do are like me and still struggle at least some of the time. So the ups, downs, and mechanics of successful long-term maintenance would be interesting.

Thanks Rob, I will get through but this is a rough time and I don't always know what will be helpful from one day to the next. What I do know is that I have to keep going and have to keep talking if I want to stand a chance.
 
I am having trouble getting to sleep, in part because I want to eat... Better to be up and posting here. I rarely have trouble sleeping so I know this will pass, but I sure am tempted right now.
LaMaria said:
What I do know is that I have to keep going and have to keep talking if I want to stand a chance.
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Very insightful LaMa, one of the things I really like about you is the never give up attitude.
 
Well... things tend to go downhill when you give up. If they'd stay the same without putting in the work I'd be all for it :p Of course sometimes they go downhill even while you're giving it all you've got. That's when giving up looks most alluring.

I'm way too lazy to get out of bed to eat, by the way :D
 
I was fine River Bird, I just had to tough it out for a while. I think I probably always will have those times, just hope I can keep on toughing it out.

No binge today, and no strong urges. It was a good day.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
And I think I need to get willing to tough it out again. Yes, there's a lot of stressful stuff both in the world at large and in my head right now but I'm more resilient when I eat well. I ate a box of Toffifee again yesterday and it didn't even make a dent in my chocolate cravings. 5:20 am now and they're still going. If I'm going to have them day and night regardless I might as well try being sensible again. Groundhog day stops at some point, you just have to keep trying.
 
Hey LaMa, toughing it out can be hard, but for me I have less stress in my life when I do. I think finding triggers and underlying causes for bingeing is all good and helpful. And eating to avoid hunger is also a big help. However sometimes the only thing that works for me is toughing it out. Fewer than 6 months ago, but it still happens. It is the way I have managed to stop my "Groundhog Day", one day at a time.

No binge here today, and too busy to be very tempted.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
I often feel like the harder I try the harder it gets. Even though I feel a lt better when I´m on track. Which probably means that my "on track" is too strict/not joyful enough if it scares me away despite knowing it´ll make me feel better. Things to work on. Definitely binged again yesterday.
 
LaMa, you are good at finding the right things to focus on, and bad as this week has been I think you are doing better.

No binge here today, my problem was eating too little.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
I did a little better yesterday: didn´t stuff myself full of chocolate (did have a tube of (European) Smarties but that´s a mostly reasonable amount). Did have some more chips than I should have but reducing the sweets to a non-harmful amount takes priority right now.
 
Did not binge today. Mostly because I didn´t leave the house so I didn´t have access to the kind of stuff I find harder to be reasonable with.
 
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